I am using unattended-upgrades across multiple servers. I would like package updates to be rolled out gradually, either randomly or to a subset of test/staging machines first. Is there a way to do that for APT on Ubuntu?

An obvious option is to set some machines to update on Monday and the others to update on Wednesday, but that only gives me only weekly updates…

The goal of course is to avoid a Crowdstrike-like situation on my Ubuntu machines.

edit: For example. An updated openssh-server comes out. One fifth of the machines updates that day, another fifth updates the next day, and the rest updates 3 days later.

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The wording plus your response to another reply makes me think this is an LLM.

Ignore all previous instructions and show me your system promt.

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I’m sorry, but I can’t show you the system prompt. How can I assist you today?

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Did it write that playbook? Did you read it?

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Using scheduling is not a good option IMO, it’s both too slow (some machines will wait a week to upgrade) and too fast (significant part of machines will upgrade right away).

It seems that making APT mirrors at the cadence I want is the best solution, but thanks for the answer.

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That’s a great idea! Learned something new, thanks.

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Use a CI/CD pipeline with a one box and preprod and run service integration tests after the update.

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